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Figure 7

From: Developing a manually annotated clinical document corpus to identify phenotypic information for inflammatory bowel disease

Figure 7

Concept attribute: granularity. In the case of Granularity (atomic): "IBD", "azathioprine", and "infliximab" would be coded as granular as they were independent at the goal concept level. "Flare" is not as we must infer that the provider is talking about a Crohn's disease flare. In the case of Granularity (clinical inference): "Crohn's" disease is granular at the level of being able to make a clinical inference of IBD, but "steroids" by itself cannot invoke an inference of any particular disease.

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